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From: Alejandro Villanueva <190921@cepsz.unizar.es>
Subject: Re: select ... or delay ... end select
Date: 2000/10/23
Date: 2000-10-23T18:01:19+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F478F2.B9716220@cepsz.unizar.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ss7s1$5gr$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <39F06DC0.55772F5B@cepsz.unizar.es>,
>   Alejandro Villanueva <190921@cepsz.unizar.es> wrote:
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> > Dear Sirs,
> >
> > Maybe I'm more stupid that I think I am but... why doesn't
>
> this code
> > work???
>
> Well it does work, it does EXACTLY what you have asked it to do
> and what I would expect it to do.
>
> To answer your question, I have to guess what misconception is
> causing you to expect the wrong thing, or perhaps to guess what
> compiler you are using that does something wrong with it.
>
> When you make a bug report *anywhere* ALWAYS say exactly what
> you saw, and why you think it is wrong, or why it is not what
> you expect. Otherwise we are playing guessing games.
>
> And most likely the misconception is nothing to do with
> being "stupid", but rather with either misunderstanding some
> Ada concept, or not noticing an obvious bug. We can help with
> either problem, but we are not mind readers :-)
>
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> Before you buy.

Well, once more you are right. You cannot read minds. This is what I
expected it to do:
I wanted to get a user's answer to some question. If the answer were not
ready in *one* second the put FALSE, else put TRUE.
Excuse me, but I thought it would be rather obvious...

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-20  0:00 select ... or delay ... end select Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-20  0:00 ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-23  0:00   ` Alejandro Villanueva [this message]
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